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View Poll Results: Could RPC Families solve the Fat Family dilemma if they were free and available from manufactures?

Could RPC Families solve the Fat Family dilemma?

Darn those overly modeled Revit Families that I downloaded off that manufacturer's site. Suddenly your Project slows to a craw and your BIM manager is letting you have it.

In comes RPC. If you have Placed an RPC Family, you may have noticed how small these Families are and how well they Render. All they need are Masking Regions and some Lines to make them work for your 2D Views (construction documents)

The image below shows two Steelcase Think Chairs. The Chair on the left is the RPC (450K) version while the one on the right is the one actually modeled in Revit (850K).

Keep in mind that this could potentially mean a huge shift in how firms use Revit with thousands of new RPC Families freely available from manufacturers. One would still need an RPC software license to Render the content but not to use its 2D Views made of Masking Regions and Lines. RPC software licenses are currently $249/ year

Re: Could RPC Families solve the Fat Family dilemma?

What about non-rendered 3D views we use showing the "look and feel" of the space next to our 2D drawings? Would they just be squiggly boxes? <-- like how RPC trees show up
What about power connections to furniture (or other equipment)? MEP-ready RPC's?
What if we put the RPC (non-wheeled) chair on a sloped floor? Would only half the lines would show up...?

I'd need to see a bit more dramatic savings in file size than 450 vs. 850Kb. Granted it appears to be half the size but is that consistent for ALL families across the board?

Keep posting, I'm interested, just trying to ask questions that I know I'll get asked.

What if we put the RPC (non-wheeled) chair on a sloped floor? Would only half the lines would show up...?

Face Based Families can reside on ANY SURFACE. Families use an Angle Param to “rotate” to User defined Instance Values (see link to zipped RFA below).

As mentioned in earlier in this thread, ArchVision it is well worth the marginal fee for rendering. Non-rendered Views do NOT contain watermarks.
Feel free to download the test RFA below. Please note that Values for the Params named "Keynote" and "OmniClass Number" are from the Revit Genome Project.